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Julie’s Restaurant, the modern French brasserie in the heart of Holland Park, reveals new interiors by Rosanna Bossom which reflect its bohemian allure

Set amid the picturesque East Sussex countryside is Limekiln, a new luxury private-hire event space, designed to host weddings and exclusive gatherings.

In 2009, decades after the Swans feud with Truman Capote, the legendary decorator and socialite gave us a tour of her homes in both New York and Paris.

The organization responsible for managing the catch of more than half the world’s tuna holds a key section of its annual compliance meeting in secret. For three days, a committee of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) assesses how well member states are following fishing rules, without any outside observers present. The WCPFC says […]

Gil Schafer, a master of classicism, upends all expectations in his sophisticated and sexy basement redo

In November 2018, Pesqueras Echebastar, a Spanish tuna fishing company, received a certificate of sustainability from the London-based Marine Stewardship Council, the world’s largest ecolabeling scheme for wild fisheries. This was the first time a purse seine fishery using fish aggregating devices (FADs) — a controversial fishing method — had been certified by the MSC. […]

Foreign tuna fishing companies, mostly from Asia, have been exploiting Madagascar’s waters since the 1950s. The bloc that is now the European Union joined the hunt in 1986 and didn’t stop for decades, renewing its deal with Madagascar every few years. Yet when the last Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA), as the deals are now […]

Championed by conservationists and coastal nations, the plan restricts the use of fish aggregating devices—tools that enable massive catches. To much fanfare, it was accepted. Now, the agreement’s future seems bleak.

Members of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) agreed to reduce the use of drifting fish-aggregating devices (FADs) and to impose three-month closures on the devices, despite opposition from the European Union.

The EU justified its decision to step out from a landmark agreement to curb harmful fishing devices in the Indian Ocean with a lack of scientific assessment, but the explanation was deemed hypocritical by ocean conservation groups.